Category: Football

The new FPL season gets underway in just a few hours. Here’s a quick overview of the some of the best FPL mini leagues in Trinidad and Tobago available to join for FREE:

The Andre Samuel League – 1353890-324705

A long standing FPL mini league, started in 2002/03 and named after its founder – the ASL originally found a home on the T&T football fan site Socawarriors.net. The league currently features almost 200 avid Trinbagonian FPL managers based locally and abroad. Home to many FPL veterans, the league has often been listed in the top 150 leagues worldwide. Managers who reside on page 1 can be regarded as strong players while any placing in top 20 should be viewed as an accomplishment.

The ICEBOX Fantasy League –932254-223954

Our friends over at ICEBOX Entertainment (promoters of the Suits Breakfast Cruises and Skins Boat Ride) have created an all new free fantasy mini league with the following incentives:

1. At the end of January, the persons ranked #1 and #2 will receive 2 comp tickets and 1 comp ticket to #SUITS2018 respectively.

2. At the end of the season, the overall leaders ranked #1 and #2 will receive 2 comp tickets and 1 comp tickets to #SKINS2018.

A Few Simple Rules:

Doh Wig.

Kix and trash talk highly encouraged.

Only Team per person.

Remember we doing this for fun.

The Hypa Drive League – 3332365-760193

Quite probably the most popular fantasy league in Trinidad and Tobago, the league boasts the biggest membership of Trinbagonian FPL managers. Hosted by radio DJ personality Hypa Hoppa, it is regularly covered on their daily radio show “The Hypa Drive” and is a place where bragging rights have to be earned and are not given.

Technically not a free league, but a Fantasy Mini League for a good cause. Our site contributor, Rene Ribeiro has launched T&T FPL Charity – a great initiative to use the popularity of the Fantasy Premier League as a vehicle to assist those in society who are disadvantaged and less fortunate. This year’s inaugural edition is in support of the Elpsis Centre whose purpose is to support pregnant women who have been abused, displaced or are unable to stand on their own feet financially. The donation is $50 and the league closes at the end of August. Further details can be found HERE.

The FPL Vibes Prize League 2016-17 is now officially open!!

In addition to the coveted FPL Vibes Prize League Trophy, there are Grand Prizes on offer for the Top 7 placed finishers in the league. There are also Quarterly prizes of a custom loaded Amazon Fire TV stick and the usual Monthly Prizes of a Club or Country Jersey.

All entrants will be invited to our new FPL Vibes Prize League Whatsapp group and receive automatic subscription to our blog at https://fplvibes.wordpress.com .

The 2016-17 Fantasy Premier League Season promises to be the most competitive ever. Let’s see who has what it takes to dethrone current FPL Vibes Prize League Champion Ian Emamalie to win the Grand prize.

PRIZES:

OVERALL GRAND PRIZES:

First Place: Apple iMac 21″ All in One Desktop and FPL Vibes Trophy

Second Place: Apple Ipad Air 2 (or Latest Generation)

Third Place: Samsung Galaxy S7 (or Latest Generation)

Fourth Place: Sony Playstation 4

Fifth Place: 32 inch Flatscreen LED TV

Sixth Place: Amazon Kindle Fire 7″

Seventh Place: Official Club or Country Jacket of your choice

QUARTERLY PRIZES:

Amazon Fire TV Stick – Custom Loaded.

MONTHLY PRIZES:

Premier League Club or National Team Jersey of your choice, including Player Name/Number/Badges.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

REGISTRATION FEE:

USD $50 or TTD $350

LEAGUE CAP:

The league will be capped at 120 players maximum. The first 120 registered players will be entered following which the league will be closed off to further entrants.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:

August 12th, 2016

LEAGUE CODE:

Strictly, league code will be provided via email upon payment of Registration Fee. No Fee, No Code. Please do not ask.

The prizes will be adjusted accordingly based on the number of registered players to include prizes and the cash differential. At a minimum of 60 players, the prizes will be:

1st Prize: Apple MacBook and FPL Vibes Trophy

2nd Prize: Sony Playstation 4

3rd prize: 32 Inch Flatscreen TV

4th prize: Amazon Kindle Fire

5th prize: Club or Country Jacket

If less than 60 players register, the league will be scrapped and the fees refunded to registered players.

Can I enter more than one team?

Entering more than one team is strictly prohibited and will result in disqualification.

When will the prizes be distributed?

Monthly prizes will be distributed within 4 weeks of official notification from FPL Vibes Admin. Grand prizes will be distributed at the end of the season within 4-6 weeks of official notification from FPL Vibes Admin.

In the event of a tie at the end of a month, the winner according to the rules of the Fantasy Premier League game is the team that made the least number of transfers. If scores are tied and number of transfers are equal at the end of the month, then the following gameweek will be used as a playoff between the tied teams.

Hosts Omar Romero and LVD (the host formally know as Darryl Celestine) return to the studio for Episode 58 of the FPL Vibes Podcast brought to you by Socawarriors.net.

We are joined by current by our guest, current FPL Vibes Prize League front runner Odell Charles. We recap an eventful October month in the Prize league and discuss our teams’ respective fortunes. A look at the contrasting form of teams like Leicester City, Chelsea and Man Utd follows and their FPL prospects. After a discussion about FPL strategy and teams with strong fixtures we close with our combined weekly picks for Gameweek 12.

Attention Fantasy League Managers in Trinidad & Tobago. Here’s a quick overview of the best FPL mini leagues available to join for FREE:

The Andre Samuel League – 75040-23791

A long standing FPL mini league, named after its founder – the ASL originally found a home on the T&T football fan site Socawarriors.net. The league features almost 200 avid Trinidadian FPL managers based locally and abroad. Home to alot of FPL veterans, the league has often been listed in the top 150 leagues worldwide. Managers who reside on page 1 can be regarded as strong players while any placing in top 20 should be viewed as an accomplishment.

The ICEBOX Fantasy League –932254-223954

Our friends over at ICEBOX Entertainment (promoters of Suits Breakfast Cruises and Skins Boat Ride) have created an all new free fantasy league with the following incentives:

1. At the end of January, the persons ranked #1 and #2 will receive 2 comp tickets and 1 comp ticket to #SUITS2018 respectively.

2. At the end of the season, the overall leaders ranked #1 and #2 will receive 2 comp tickets and 1 comp tickets to #SKINS2018.

A Few Simple Rules:

Doh Wig.

Kix and trash talk highly encouraged.

Only Team per person.

Remember we doing this for fun.

The Hypa Drive League –

Quite probably the most popular fantasy league in Trinidad and Tobago, the league boasts the biggest membership of Trinbagonian FPL managers. Hosted by radio DJ personality Hypa Hoppa, it is regularly covered on their daily radio show “The Hypa Drive” and is a place where bragging rights have to be earned and are not given.

Not technically a free league, but a Fantasy League for a good cause. Our site contributor, Rene Ribeiro has launched T&T FPL Charity. The intention of T&T FPL Charity is to use the popularity of the Fantasy Premier League as a vehicle to assist those in society who are disadvantaged and less fortunate. This year’s inaugural edition is in support of the Elpsis Centre whose purpose is to support pregnant women who have been abused, displaced or are unable to stand on their own feet financially. The donation is $50 and further details can be found HERE.

Can you believe it folks? The nine months of thrills and spills have come to an end. Manchester City has won their second BPL title in three years and the corresponding FPL season has been exciting and very eventful. Some would be disappointed with their showing while others may be very chuffed and already planning strategies for next year.

Today we salute our May prize winner, Andrew Boissiere with his team GOLDEN EYES. Andrew tallied the same 163 points as Christian Gittens with his team gitzn11 but prevailed on a tiebreaker by making less transfers for the month. For his choice of jersey, Andrew has selected a Netherlands Home Kit from our official kit supplier Red Mango Kits. It was only a two gameweek month but Andrew was rewarded for finishing strongly. Let us take an in depth look at Andrew’s final push.

The last double gameweek 37 of the season was disappointing for many managers but not so for ‘GOLDEN EYES’. Andrew amassed an incredible 102 points with captain Dzeko leading the way with 50 points. Other leading lights included Zabaleta(12), Mertesacker(8) and Hart(7). I hope Andrew ‘raised his bat’ for this peerless century!

In preparation for GW38 Andrew sold Lallana and Mertesacker and bought Ward and Gerrard. He totalled 61 points on this occasion with Gerrard(11),Ramsey(10) and Zabaleta(9) being the star performers for ‘GOLDEN EYES’. What is remarkable about Andrew’s feat is that he landed the monthly prize without the fantasy giant, Yaya Toure. Zabaleta and Dzeko proved to be the key men for Andrew in his push to the May monarchy just as they were key for coach Manuel Pellegrini in the club’s push for the BPL title.

Congratulations to Andrew as well as all other monthly winning managers in FPL Vibes for their sterling efforts this season. The FPL managers in this league have exhibited tactical acumen of the highest order and in my opinion winning prizes gets harder with each passing year. Look out for a coming article which wraps up the league and recognizes the top 5 managers in the overall standings.

We anxiously await the 2014 World Cup which will keep the football vibes bubbling till August 17th when we do it all over again.

Hosts Omar “dinho” Romero and Darryl “2cents” Celestine are back in the studio for Episode 43 of the FPL Vibes Podcast brought to you by Socawarriors.net.

Our guest this week is fellow FPL Vibes contributor and last year’s prize league winner Rene “Ribs” Ribeiro. We discuss our teams’ respective fortunes and recap the latest happenings in January. We take an in-depth look at Manchester United and the form of Tottenham Hotspurs. After a look at the prize league standings, Ribs offers up a tactical assessment of the best defensive assets on offer for holding the wildcard. As always we close out with our combined picks for the upcoming Gameweek 23.

Here is a round up of some Fantasy League players who may have been affected by the just concluded international break.

TRAVEL WOES

Uruguay’s World Cup playoff match against Jordan on Wednesday evening meant that Luis Suarez would have flown over 17,000 miles during the international break. Despite his reputation for being able to overcome jet lag, Liverpool are taking no chances and have hired a private jet to get the player back to Anfield as soon as possible.

Similarly, Spain’s players jetted off to Johannesburgh, South Africa on Tuesday for a friendly international that featured the likes of Alvaro Negredo, Jesus Navas, Santi Cazorla, Nacho Monreal and Juan Mata.

Argentina’s friendly match versus Bosnia-Herzegovenia was held comparatively closer to home in Miami and featured the likes of Sergio Aguero, Pablo Zabaleta and Erik Lamela.

Staying even closer to home was Brazil who tackled Chile in Toronto with the likes of Oscar, David Luiz, Paulinho, Ramires and Willian among their contingent.

FATIGUE

Several players participated in gruelling back to back knockout games over the international break.

France’s crucial and taxing double header against Ukraine featured performances from the likes of Hugo Lloris, Patrice Evra, Mathieu Debuchy, Mamadou Sakho and Yohan Cabaye. There were also shorter appearances by Bacary Sagna and Olivier Giroud.

Portugal’s playoff game against Sweden featured exertions over the two legs by the likes of Martin Olsson, Sebastien Larsson, Alexander Kacaniklic and Johan Elmander for Sweden. For Portugal, Nani was the lone EPL player that featured.

Further afield, Samuel Eto’o, Benoit Assou Ekotto, Papiss Cisse, Yaya Toure, Kolo Toure and Jon Obi Mikel all featured for their respective teams in World Cup playoffs in Africa.

The seemingly long international break is over my fellow fantasy managers and coming out of this EPL break a lot of attention will be focused on who is fit or not for Gameweek 12 action. Can we safely buy a new player? Do we stick or twist on transferring out an injured player in our squads? These are the questions being asked right now. To add some clarity to the situation we will now take a look at the key players and their status for the coming Gameweek. Let us also take into account that as we speak the last World cup qualifier is taking place between Uruguay and Jordan and one of our fantasy favourites, Liverpool forward Luis Suarez is in the starting lineup.

WHO’S FIT?

Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey was rested from Wales friendly against Finland due to a tight hamstring but has been passed fit for the clash against Southampton. More good news for Arsenal has arrived as Theo Walcott is training once more and available for this weekend.Aston Villa are nervously awaiting the return of talismanic striker Christian Benteke from international duty. The Belgian striker missed training on Sunday and didn’t feature in Tuesday’s defeat to Japan because of a knee injury. Reports suggest it was only a precautionary move and that he should be fit for Villa’s clash with West Brom on Monday.

WHO’S DOUBTFUL

Manchester United and Chelsea are both sweating on the fitness of defensive players going into the matches this weekend following injuries on England duty. Phil Jones limped out of England’s defeat to Chile on Friday evening with a groin problem and is a doubt for the trip to Cardiff on Sunday. Ashley Cole suffered a recurrence of his recent rib injury during the loss to Germany on Tuesday night, making him a serious doubt for the London derby with West Ham at the weekend.

Holding midfielder/defender Jones joins Michael Carrick and Maourane Fellaini on the sidelines for David Moyes’ men, meaning Ryan Giggs could be one to watch for fantasy managers this weekend. The Welshman has started just two games this season so far but could be in line for a third at the weekend due to the injury absentees. Promising youngster Ryan Bertrand could make a rare appearance for Jose Mourinho’s men should Cole fail to make the clash at Upton Park on Saturday evening.

Thankfully for us FPL managers the next international break is in March 2014, definitely far enough to allow us to focus solely on planning for the league action and relieving the anxious injury watch over the regular two week international schedule of games.

It would be wise to check until the very last minute for more injury news as the heavy Christmas schedule is soon upon us. Every extra transfer made or not made is even more important.

We are smack dab in the middle of another international break again folks. Yes, I know many groan about the boredom and the lack of league football but its also a good time to reflect and plan ahead. Taking a look at some of the EPL stars involved in the internationals also would not hurt but we at FPL Vibes will now do our part to assist and present a sample of midfielders to consider for your side and how their stats match up.

Most FPL managers have settled on their forward line or at least the best options are obvious so that a switch can be made. The midfield options this year so far have not been as clear cut for the simple reason that the big name ‘heavy hitters’ such as Silva and Hazard have not set the world alight. In addition to this, the returns from midfield have not been as high as previous years up to this point. Some budget options have presented themselves such as Ross Barkley, Aaron Ramsey and Robbie Brady. They have outperformed higher priced options and made it easier for FPL managers to spend more on forwards and defenders. We are going to present midfielders’ performance under the five key categories of goals, assists, passes received in the final third, shot accuracy and chances created. Some of the high performers will be highlighted along with those who have that potential to score well going forward.

MIDFIELDERS

Goals

Assists

Passes received in final third

Shot accuracy (%)

Chances created

Games played

Ross Barkley(Everton)

2

0

116

26.3

8

7

Robbie Brady(Hull City)

3

1

59

37.5

9

6

Aaron Ramsey(Arsenal)

4

2

103

43.8

8

7

Mesut Ozil(Arsenal)

0

3

95

80

16

4

Yaya Toure(Manchester City)

4

1

109

46.2

9

7

Oscar(Chelsea)

3

0

215

35.3

10

6

Sigurdsson(Tottenham)

3

0

85

53.3

7

6

Lallana(Southampton)

1

2

119

25

13

7

Michu(Swansea)

2

1

94

40.9

16

7

Whittingham(Cardiff)

1

2

103

20

12

7

Hazard(Chelsea)

1

0

131

35.7

14

7

Silva(Manchester City)

1

2

111

50

14

4

The categories selected above highlight the players’ potential to score and create. There are some very revealing stats here which can guide your decisions as some teams have favourable fixtures on the horizon. The upcoming fixture list in addition to this snapshot of players’ form should be a decent gauge for now but we know how quickly things change in the world of football and FPL.

Over the course of the Fantasy Premier League season, more often than not fortune favors the most prepared. Having the most up to date information at hand can make the difference between you and your competition.

We here at FPL Vibes along with some of our regular contributors have put together the following basic Fantasy League Resource guide to assist avid players of the game.

SCOUT SITES

The virtual fantasy league scriptures. For everything from team news, injuries, scout articles, price changes and much more check out the following scout websites.

Does your standard cable package not include live EPL games (*cough* Flow). Is another EPL game not being broadcast? The following websites provide live streaming links for just about any ongoing EPL match.